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The podcast is back with a bang from hiatus. Our guest, Scott DePasquale, is the CEO of Utilidata, an electric utility IoT and cybersecurity company. Scott talks about his contribution to the Internet Security Alliance’s upcoming book, The Cyber Security Social Contract.

Episode 128 also brings you a news roundup from the most momentous August in cybersecurity history. Maury Shenk brings the SWIFT hack to life by describing his own brush with cyber bank fraud. I cover the Shadow Brokers’ disclosure of what most believe to be an NSA hacking toolkit. Meanwhile, Russia is hacking our political process and only the side whose ox is being gored seems to care.

The FTC had a busy month. It served LabMD a mess of home cookin’ and the company is now free to argue its case before an unbiased court of appeals. Speaking of which, the ninth circuit court of appeals shot down the FTC’s effort to steal the FCC’s common-carrier-regulating turf, and the FTC has finally deigned to notice (and even pat on the head) NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework.

In privacy class action news, the lawyers for CareFirst deserve a bonus; they’ve now killed three class action cases (here, here, and here) where the breach was serious but the plaintiffs couldn’t claim that the stolen data was ever used to harm them. And Judge Koh, to her shame, has approved $4 million in legal fees for the lawyers who brought a class action against Yahoo! and settled for a no-damages injunction that lets Yahoo! keep reading its users emails, but after it’s been sent, not before.